Healthcare

As a growing community, Riverside has placed an emphasis on expanding healthcare in the region. Riverside is well-equipped to serve patients from newborns to seniors at one of its local hospital facilities:

Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente is the nation’s largest nonprofit health plan, serving 8.7 million members nationwide. There are more than 1,600 staff members and 130 physicians who serve the Riverside community. Services at the Riverside medical center and its three satellite offices are family practice, optometry, pediatrics, OB/GYN, radiology, physical therapy, emergency services, and general surgery.

Parkview Community Hospital, a 193-bed acute care hospital, has been serving the community of Riverside since 1958. Parkview takes pride in serving the needs of families throughout all stages of life. Emergency service, maternal-child, general and orthopedic surgery, and senior services are core programs at Parkview. As a nonprofit hospital, Parkview has a community focus and offers a variety of health screenings and educational programs for all age groups. With more than 350 physicians and 900 employees, its healthcare professionals use the latest technology and equipment, while continuing to focus on the most important part of healing — the human touch.

Founded in 1901, Riverside Community Hospital has grown to a 373-bed, full-service, Trauma Level II, acute-care medical facility serving the greater Riverside area within the Inland Empire. In addition to the recent expansion of the HeartCare Institute, Riverside Community Hospital continues to provide a variety of specialty services, including the Cancer Center, Neurosciences, Family Birthplace, Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatrics, Palliative Care, Transplant Services, Surgical Services, Orthopedics, Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Social Services, Pharmacy, and Diabetes Education. Riverside Community Hospital is proud to own and operate Riverside County’s first da Vinci® Surgical System robot, a tool which allows doctors to work more efficiently and with smaller incisions, potentially decreasing downtime for patients.

Riverside County Regional Medical Center (RCRMC) is the new standard for advanced healthcare in Riverside County. Contained within the walls of a magnificently designed facility, this state-of-the-art 520,000-square-foot hospital features the latest technology in medical services. With a 362-bed capacity, the hospital offers the unique privacy and convenience of single-patient rooms. As a teaching hospital, RCRMC provides a broad base of academic and clinical training for physicians, physician assistants, nurses and allied healthcare professionals. From its Pediatric Intensive Care Unit to the Level II Trauma Center, which is the busiest in Riverside County, to the 70-plus specialty care clinics, RCRMC is designed to meet unique healthcare needs.

New Eye Clinic Opens in Riverside

The staff and surgeons at Loma Linda University Health Care (LLUHC) Ophthalmology expanded to Riverside in the form of a new office, Loma Linda University Ophthalmology at Riverwalk. This new office, which opened in mid-January 2009, is located at the new Medical Park at Riverwalk.

LLUHC Ophthalmology is known for its leadership in research and technology, as well as its excellence in patient care. They have been recruiting new and dynamic physicians in a wide variety of subspecialty areas within the field of ophthalmology such as Oculoplastics and retinal disorders. Five such physicians are at Loma Linda University Ophthalmology at Riverwalk. In addition, the new office has state-of-the-art equipment, and the ophthalmologists treat a number of eye diseases, including glaucoma and cataracts. Laser vision correction is also available.

The eye clinic is located at 4244 Riverwalk Parkway, Suite 100, in Riverside. For appointments, call 909-558-2154.

The March Healthcare Development LifeCare project will provide for the development of a state-of-the-art, integrated healthcare campus. The campus provides for a wide range of general and military medical-related services, including hospitals, general and specialty medical offices, medical retail, research and education, a wellness center, a senior center, independent/assisted-living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and related support facilities. Currently, approximately half of the residents of southwestern Riverside County leave the area to obtain necessary and elective healthcare services. The project will facilitate the development of an integrated master-planned campus to address the entire healthcare continuum.

Serving the community since 1935, Riverside Medical Clinic (RMC) is committed to providing quality care that is accessible and affordable. They have offices on Brockton Avenue in Riverside, on Day Street in Moreno Valley, on Magnolia Avenue in Corona, and on Clay Street in Jurupa Valley. They are a premier provider of quality diagnostic imaging and preventive screening services including MRI, CT and PT-CT. Pharmacies are at the Brockton and Canyon Springs clinics and a surgery center is on the campus of the Brockton Avenue Clinic. Physician-owned, there are 112 doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants to care for patients.